From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T21:10:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] gem 'rufus-verbs' released

Hi,

On 17-Jan-08, at 8:31 PM, John Mettraux wrote:

> == what is it ?
>
> 'rufus-verbs' is an extended HTTP client library (gem). It provides
> the four main HTTP "verbs" as Ruby methods : get, put, post and
> delete.
>
> It wraps a certain number of techniques that make it a decent tool for
> manipulating web resources.
>
>
> == features
>
> currently :
>
> * follows redirections
> * automatically adds _method={post|put} in the request parameters with
> the option :fake_put => true
> * HTTPS aware ('verify none' by default)
> * HTTP basic authentication
> * doesn't propagate auth credentials in case of redirection to  
> different host
> * advertises and uses gzip compression
> * proxy-aware (HTTP_PROXY env var or :proxy option)
> * conditional GET (via ConditionalEndPoint class)
> * request body built via a block (post and put) or the :data option
>
> maybe later :
>
> * retry on failure
> * greediness (automatic parsing for content like JSON or YAML)

You'll be able to not do this right?

>
> * http digest authentication

Oh, this would be nice.

>
> * cache awareness
> * head, options
>
> more at http://rufus.rubyforge.org/rufus-verbs/

I see you are dependent on rufus-lru. That's a really interesting gem  
that I don't remember seeing anything about before. What else do you  
have tucked away in there? I see the OpenWFE stuff...

Cheers,
Bob

>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- 
> John Mettraux   -///-   http://jmettraux.openwfe.org
>

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